Amendment An Anachronism

December 24, 2013|Letter to the editor

When James Madison wrote the Constitution, muskets had been used by militia to fight the British as we had no standing army. Earlier, muskets had been used to fight Indians. As they moved into the frontier along with their axes, settlers took their rifles to provide meat. They did not hunt with handguns or AK-47s.

Madison wrote the Second Amendment based on life in the 18th century and never foresaw the thousands of people that would die in the future because of an amendment that is an anachronism and has created a sickness in our society that even unspeakable tragedies like Newtown cannot cure. The killing and the grieving will go on.